Smile designer
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsMichelle Stone-Collonge, Eric E. Kuo, Rick M. Matty, Fabio Pettinati, Thomas Maurer, Dzmitry Sanko
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Abstract
Various methods and systems for designing a restored smile are provided. One method includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the scan data, creating a dental treatment plan to restore one or more teeth from an initial condition to a successive condition, and wherein a final condition of the one or more is based on the one or more teeth having at least one planned additional restorative tooth structure provided therewith.
Claims16
A computing device readable medium having executable instructions which is configured to be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- identifying the patient's smile in the 2D image;
- receiving a user selection of a smile configuration from a smile library database;
- displaying a semi-transparent representation of the smile configuration on the patient's smile in the 2D image;
- providing a tool for manually adjusting the smile configuration on the 2D image of the patient's face to generate an improved smile;
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- displaying an image with the improved smile superimposed over the patient's smile to visualize a restored smile on the patient's face.
A computing device readable medium having executable instructions which is configured to be executed by a processor to cause a computing device to perform a method comprising:
- displaying a two dimensional (2D) image of a patient's face including the patient's smile;
- identifying the patient's smile on the 2D image;
- receiving a user selection of a smile configuration from a library database;
- displaying a semi-transparent representation of the smile configuration on the patient smile in the 2D image;
- providing a tool for manually adjusting the smile configuration on the 2D image of the patient's face to generate an improved smile;
- receiving manual adjustments to the smile configuration made with the tool;
- and
- displaying an image with the improved smile superimposed over the patient's smile to visualize a restored smile on the patient's face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.